Twelve breaths a minute
Subtitle: end-of-life essays
By: edited by Lee Gutkind ; foreword by Karen Wolk Feinstein ; introduction by Francine Prose
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Medical humanities; Medical humanities
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dallas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780870745713
Subjects: Terminally ill; Death; Palliative treatment; Family relationships; Terminal care; Caregivers
Description: An anthology with the reflections of family members, nurses, physicians, and hospice workers as they care for the dying. From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Editor's Note: Frank at the piano; title: Foreword: New approaches to end-of-life care / Karen Wolk Feinstein; title: Introduction / Francine Prose; title: To morning / Anne Jacobson; title: On bearing witness / Laurie Foos; title: Insights in the rearview mirror / Phyllis Westover; title: The general / Larry D. Cripe; title: Yellow taxi / Eve Joseph; title: Wake-up call / Catherine Musemeche; title: Simple gifts / Beecher Grogan; title: Living and dying well / Therese Zink; title: A better place / Valerie Seiling Jacobs; title: Waiting (to go home) / Howard Mansfield; title: Mr. Stone / Diana Flescher; title: The rules / Maria Meindl; title: Life and death and 911 / Caroline Burau; title: Snowing in Krakow / Marcin Chwistek; title: Do you remember? / Patricia McCarthy; title: Just listen while the kettle boils / Joe Primo; title: This is blood / Sandell Morse; title: A figurative death / Carol Cooley; title: Whose failure was it? / Jonathan Weinkle; title: The measure of time / Amanda J. Redig; title: The deep truth / Eugenia Smith; title: The resurrection of Wonder Woman / Eleanor Vincent; title: Twelve breaths a minute / Gulchin Ergun.